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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Pierre say that prison escapes happen?
(a) Only in fairy tales.
(b) When you are unjustly accused.
(c) Only at night.
(d) When the guards are lax.

2. What does the director request Cincinnatus to do?
(a) Write a formal note of thanks to the director.
(b) Write a last will and testament.
(c) Write a formal welcome for the executioner.
(d) Write down his requests for his last meal.

3. What does Pierre criticize Cincinnatus' attitude as?
(a) Constantly angry.
(b) Melodramatic.
(c) Selfish and contemptuous.
(d) Not serious enough.

4. What is the one difference between Marthe's two identical twin brothers?
(a) One wears all red clothes and the other all black.
(b) One is missing a hand, and he keeps his false hand in is pocket.
(c) One is an inch taller than the other.
(d) One has a black mustache and the other a blonde one.

5. What does Marthe's escort keep trying to make her wear?
(a) A shawl.
(b) A coat.
(c) Gloves.
(d) A hat.

6. What happens when M'sieur Pierre sits down?
(a) The chair is too weak and the seat cracks beneath him.
(b) His legs do not reach the floor.
(c) The chair is too deep and he must sit on the forward edge.
(d) He bends his body as if sitting but floats an inch above the chair seat.

7. What does M'sieur Pierre show Cincinnatus?
(a) A collection of stamps from different times and places.
(b) Snapshots of himself.
(c) Different colored stones.
(d) Articles cut out from magazines.

8. What does Pierre tell Cincinnatus that they will do together?
(a) Walk out of the prison to freedom.
(b) Walk up the execution scaffold.
(c) Find a path to spiritual well-being.
(d) Take over the guard towers.

9. What does Cincinnatus do when he undresses at the end of his second day in prison?
(a) He puts his clothes in the bed to form a second version of him.
(b) He throws his clothes out the window.
(c) He redresses and undresses in several different outfits, changing personality.
(d) He continues undressing and takes apart his entire body.

10. What animal arrives with Marthe and her family?
(a) A bulldog.
(b) An albino rat.
(c) A black cat.
(d) An iguana.

11. What time does Rodrig Ivanovich appear?
(a) Exactly at ten o'clock.
(b) Twenty minutes after his scheduled arrival at eleven.
(c) Exactly at noon.
(d) Fifteen minues early, at quarter to nine.

12. What time does the cell light go out?
(a) At midnight.
(b) At nine o'clock.
(c) At ten o'clock.
(d) At eleven o'clock.

13. What does Cincinnatus do outside the new prisoner's cell?
(a) He listens at the cell door.
(b) He whistles and knocks.
(c) He writes a secret chalk mark on the wall.
(d) He looks through the peephole.

14. What reason does Cincinnatus give Emmie that proves to him that everyone is talking about the date of his execution?
(a) The guard turns off the radio whenever he approaches.
(b) He hears people whispering outside his cell.
(c) A square was cut out of his morning paper.
(d) Everyone looks at him as if they know a secret.

15. What part of Cincinnatus' body does Pierre examine?
(a) His arm.
(b) His back.
(c) His foot.
(d) His neck.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the lawyer offer to Cincinnatus?

2. What is dirtying the lawyer's back?

3. In the prison rule number two, what does it say is the prison's pride?

4. What does the director say is wrong with Roman Vissarionovich?

5. How does the director think Cincinnatus should feel about the new prisoner?

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